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ARTWORK ID: 6006
CATEGORY: Portraits (a model release form from the subject must be supplied)
ARTIST STATEMENT:
CULTURAL WARNING AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this artwork contains an image and name of a deceased person that could cause distress. Please know that I have respectfully sought and been given permission from the Grandson of the individual depicted of whom I hold the sincerest respect and gratitude for.
In completing this artwork, I acknowledge the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land and the Ngarluma people as the Traditional Custodians of this land that I am privileged to currently reside on. I respectfully recognise the deep historical and spiritual connection of the Ngarluma people to this country and acknowledge the ancient and continuing connection to the land I live on. I wish to pay my respect to Elders past, present and emerging as the First Nations Inhabitants and Guardians of this land.
I extend my deepest thanks and gratitude to Barayuwa Munuŋgurr, who is the maternal grandson of Djimbaryun and a Djuŋgaya of the Munyuku clan, for authorising the display of this portrait, and Will Stubbs of the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre for liaising with Barayuwa on my behalf. I also wish to acknowledge the estate of Donald Thomson and Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press for consenting to allowing the recreation of Thompson's historical image.
ARTWORK STATEMENT
My family and I have recently moved from East Arnhem Land to the Pilbara. While I love the big skies and colours of the landscape here, sub-tropical Northern Territory is deeply etched in my heart, I miss and dream of its remote wildness every day.
By coincidence my copy of Donald Thompson in Arnhem Land was recently returned to me, and while it fulfilled some of my homesickness, Thomsons image of Djimbaryun of the Munyuku clan completely enchanted me. Djimbaryun embodies the pride and strength Yolngu people carry today, something I wanted to recreate on paper as not only a portrait of a strong youth, yet an image that also pays honour and admiration to peoples that have lived in harmony with the land for thousands of years.
I chose to render Djimbaryun in graphite and pastel chalk due to my own passion for the medium and to best create an artwork that respectfully depicts a feeling of presence, power and masculine beauty suitable to the person and peoples he represents.
MEDIUM: Graphite and pastel chalk
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS (width x height): 445mm x 510mm
WEIGHT (approx): 3kg
ARTIST LOCATION: NICKOL WEST, WA
ARTWORK ID: 6006
CATEGORY: Portraits (a model release form from the subject must be supplied)
ARTIST STATEMENT:
CULTURAL WARNING AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this artwork contains an image and name of a deceased person that could cause distress. Please know that I have respectfully sought and been given permission from the Grandson of the individual depicted of whom I hold the sincerest respect and gratitude for.
In completing this artwork, I acknowledge the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land and the Ngarluma people as the Traditional Custodians of this land that I am privileged to currently reside on. I respectfully recognise the deep historical and spiritual connection of the Ngarluma people to this country and acknowledge the ancient and continuing connection to the land I live on. I wish to pay my respect to Elders past, present and emerging as the First Nations Inhabitants and Guardians of this land.
I extend my deepest thanks and gratitude to Barayuwa Munuŋgurr, who is the maternal grandson of Djimbaryun and a Djuŋgaya of the Munyuku clan, for authorising the display of this portrait, and Will Stubbs of the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre for liaising with Barayuwa on my behalf. I also wish to acknowledge the estate of Donald Thomson and Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press for consenting to allowing the recreation of Thompson's historical image.
ARTWORK STATEMENT
My family and I have recently moved from East Arnhem Land to the Pilbara. While I love the big skies and colours of the landscape here, sub-tropical Northern Territory is deeply etched in my heart, I miss and dream of its remote wildness every day.
By coincidence my copy of Donald Thompson in Arnhem Land was recently returned to me, and while it fulfilled some of my homesickness, Thomsons image of Djimbaryun of the Munyuku clan completely enchanted me. Djimbaryun embodies the pride and strength Yolngu people carry today, something I wanted to recreate on paper as not only a portrait of a strong youth, yet an image that also pays honour and admiration to peoples that have lived in harmony with the land for thousands of years.
I chose to render Djimbaryun in graphite and pastel chalk due to my own passion for the medium and to best create an artwork that respectfully depicts a feeling of presence, power and masculine beauty suitable to the person and peoples he represents.
MEDIUM: Graphite and pastel chalk
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS (width x height): 445mm x 510mm
WEIGHT (approx): 3kg
ARTIST LOCATION: NICKOL WEST, WA